Tidbits
Political Quotations
To Accompany the August 27, 2020 Edition of Tidbits
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2020/Tidbits082720.htm
Bob Jensen at
Trinity University
The Jewish Express: A Brief History of
Antifa: Part I ---
https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/a-brief-history-of-antifa-part-i/2020/06/14/
The Jewish Experess: A Brief History of
Antifa: Part II ---
https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/a-brief-history-of-antifa-part-ii-antifa-in-the-united-states/2020/06/24/
My Latest Web Document
Over 600 Examples of Critical Thinking and Illustrations of How to Mislead With
Statistics ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/MisleadWithStatistics.htm
Animated Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth
Over 200 Years (1790 – 2010) ---
A Visualization of the United States’ Exploding Population Growth Over 200 Years
(1790 – 2010)
USA Debt Clock --- http://www.usdebtclock.org/
The published national debt is a lie
Here's the real federal debt ---
https://www.truthinaccounting.org/about/our_national_debt
Debt to GDP Ratio by Country 2020 ---
https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/countries-by-national-debt/
Human Population Over Time on Earth ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE
MIT's Links to Covid-19 Trackers Around the World ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/07/1000961/launching-mittr-covid-tracing-tracker/
Johns Hopkins University:
Updated Map and Table on the Number of Coronavirus Cases for Every Nation
---
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Accuracy is subject to wide margins of error for every nation and varies greatly
between nations.
Covid019 in New Hampshire
---
https://www.nh.gov/covid19/
The best maps for comparing
counties and towns in your state are provided by your state. For example, here's
the map showing the distribution of cases for New Hampshire counties and towns
---
https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-coronavirus-map/32009329#
Beautiful News Daily (news and statistics to offset all of
today's bad news) ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/
Here's a humorous and serious TED talk that seriously argues why the world needs billionaires
https://www.ted.com/talks/harald_eia_where_in_the_world_is_it_easiest_to_get_rich
Why did Cuba abandon its socialist/communist dream of equality for everybody?
The Guardian: This was the egalitarian dream of Cuba in the 1960s: For years in
Cuba, jobs as varied as farm workers and doctors only had a difference in their
wages of the equivalent of a few US dollars a month.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/12/cuba
Here's a somber and serious Guardian article on why the Cuban
model of income equality for all is a disaster ---
Fidel Castro says his economic system is failing ---
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/09/fidel-castro-cuba-economic-model
Miracle of Chile ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_Chile
Movie: The Chicago Boys of Chile ---
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/chicagoboysenglish
The Singapore Dream: How Singapore's richest man went
from welding in a factory for $14 per hour to owning a $17 billion hotpot
restaurant chain ---
https://www.businessinsider.com/life-of-singapore-richest-man-from-welder-to-hotpot-billionaire-2020-1
While a
move is underway to destroy the American Dream of rags to riches (by taxing away
the riches) the Chinese dream is on the rise.
The Chinese Dream
How a Chinese billionaire went from making $16 a month in a factory to being one
of the world's richest self-made women with an $8.3 billion real-estate empire
---
https://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-richest-self-made-woman-wu-yajun-net-worth-2019-2
Top 50 Billionaires in China ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_by_net_worth
Jensen
Comment
The question for students to debate is why a supposed
communist country allows so many billionaires to rise up from poverty.
That's supposed to happen in the USA where a child growing up in deep
poverty (think Oprah Winfrey or Howard Shultz) became a multi-billionaires.
But is it also supposed to happen under communism? If
so, why?
One reason is that many billionaires can afford to pour lots of money into high risk ventures. When's the last time you heard about a high risk (think Silicon Valley) venture in Europe?
Wikiquote from Wikipedia --- https://www.wikiquote.org/
I detest what you write, but I would give my
life to make it possible for you to continue to write ---
Voltaire
"This is perhaps the assembly of the most
intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House, with the exception
of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone"
John F. Kennedy at a White House party
Harper's: A Letter on Justice and Open Debate --- |
When the Great Scorer comes to write against your name, one unforgiveable sin (racial profiling) outweighs all the good you've done in life.
Bob Jensen
Kobe Bryant: We need to make the most of
every minute we have ---
https://www.newsweek.com/i-wont-take-see-you-later-granted-148449
James Baldwin Talks About Racism in America &
Civil Rights Activism on The Dick Cavett Show (1969) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/08/james-baldwin-talks-about-racism-in-america-civil-rights-activism-on-the-dick-cavett-show-1969.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+OpenCulture+(Open+Culture)
Hermann Weyl born in Hamburg, Germany. He wrote,
"One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to
men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight---brilliant, sharp, but
cold ... thus we are clearest where knowledge matters least: in mathematics,
especially number theory." ---
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Weyl.html
Also see Mathematical Analytics in Plato's Cave
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm#Analytics
And nevertheless conclude that the optimum
amount of restriction of immigration is zero point zero, zero, zero? Amazing.
Economics are generally skeptical models that yield corner solutions ---
https://www.econlib.org/do-you-talk-about-it-in-open-borders-yes/
Jensen Comment
To the list of questions I would add "Do your talk about the Tragedy of the
Commons?"
The problem with open borders is somewhat related to the economic problem of
"The Sharing of the Commons" where giving everybody the right to use a free
resource leads to everybody losing that resource. At what point will allowing
billions of people share in the free medical care, free college, and other
scarce resources ruin it for everybody ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
History of United States Immigration Laws ---
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGCkZzrvQkcFbRplBPwBFwmFDs
Open immigration can’t exist with a strong
social safety net; if you’re going to assure healthcare and a decent income to
everyone, you can’t make that offer global ---
Paul Krugman
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/724654-open-immigration-can-t-exist-with-a-strong-social-safety-net
History will prove former President Donald
Trump was correct about Mexico one day funding an impenetrable wall --- to keep
out over 2 billion starving green immigrants seeking to enter Mexico from the
north.
Bob Jensen
Assorted Charlie Munger Quotations ---
Walter E. Williams: Insults to Black
History ---
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2020/06/24/insults-to-black-history-n2571095?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=06/24/2020&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167
Walter E. Williams: The Leftist Effort to Revise American History ---
Walter E. Williams: The True Plight of Black Americans
Walter E. Williams: Back to Academic
Brainwashing ---
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2020/08/19/back-to-academic-brainwashing-n2574500?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=08/19/2020&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167
Is Racism Responsible for Today's Black
Problems? ---
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2020/07/29/is-racism-responsible-for-todays-black-problems-n2573212?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=07/29/2020&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167
Some Fatherly Words of Wisdom from Jack Bogle, Founder
of Vanguard Investments, to My Sons ---
https://jborden.com/2019/06/16/some-fatherly-words-of-wisdom-from-jack-bogle-founder-of-vanguard-investments-to-my-sons/
Walter A. Williams: The Nation's Report Card
How are K-12 schools doing under President Trump versus
President Obama?
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2020/05/06/the-nations-report-card-n2568167?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/06/2020&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167
Jensen's Comment
Most K-12 schools were probably doing better when I was a child than they're
doing today. The downhill slide is greatest in the gang-ridden schools,
drug-infested urban schools like Chicago and New Orleans. Throwing money at such
schools is not the answer until life at home recovers.
Finland knows this, which is why Finland's dads spend more time with school
children than the moms or the teachers.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/dec/04/finland-only-country-world-dad-more-time-kids-moms
Walter E. Williams: Insane News Tidbits
---
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2020/05/27/insane-news-tidbits-n2569329?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/27/2020&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167
Milton Friedman: The Lesson of the
Spoons ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/08/spoons-are-in-aisle-9.html
Chopsticks would be even better
Rep. Ilhan Omar Calls For “Dismantling” of US “Economy and Political Systems”
(VIDEO) ---
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/944250-radical-seattle-city-councilmember-kshama-sawant-vows-to-overthrow-the-united-states-and-replace-with-a-socialist-world?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI&utm_content=1Cugtgg08BDw-1AwBlaN1Qmmriw..A
Jensen Comment
Republicans are most grateful that Omar played a huge role in getting Biden
nominated
NFL Dropping Military Honor Guards for
National Anthem ---
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/08/24/report-nfl-dropping-military-honor-guards-for-national-anthem/
Radical Seattle City Councilmember Kshama
Sawant Vows to Militantly Overthrow the United States and Replace with “a Socialist World”
---
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/944250-radical-seattle-city-councilmember-kshama-sawant-vows-to-overthrow-the-united-states-and-replace-with-a-socialist-world?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI&utm_content=1Cugtgg08BDw-1AwBlaN1Qmmriw..A
Also see
https://mynorthwest.com/1850633/rantz-socialist-kshama-sawant-militant-takeover-amazon/?
"In
Praise of Cheap Labor," by Paul Krugman,
Slate, March 21, 1997 ---
https://slate.com/business/1997/03/in-praise-of-cheap-labor.html
Corruption in general has a deleterious effect
on the readiness of economic agents to invest. In the long run, it leads to a
paralysis of economic life. But very often it is not that economic agents
themselves have had the bad experience of being cheated and ruined, they just
know that in this country, or in this part of the economy, or this building
scene, there is a high likelihood that you will get cheated and that free riders
can get away with it. Here again, reputation is absolutely essential, which is
why transparency is so important. Trust can only be engendered by transparency.
It's no coincidence that the name of the most influential non-governmental
organization dealing with corruption is Transparency International.
A Conversation with Karl Sigmund: When Rule of Law is
Not Working
https://www.edge.org/conversation/karl_sigmund-when-the-rule-of-law-is-not-working
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so on ad infinitum ---
Augustus De Morgan
Prior to 1980 what was unique about the year of his birth in 1871?
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/De_Morgan.html
Also see
The
enemy is fear
We think it's hate
But, it's fear
Gandhi
12 inspiring quotes from Martin Luther King
Jr.---
https://www.businessinsider.com/inspiring-martin-luther-king-jr-quotes-2017-1
Biden called Ella Baker a giant of the civil
rights movement. Her life was extraordinary ---
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21395152/ella-baker-activist-joe-biden-speech-dncc
Bertrand Russell's observations on the value
of leisure were made in an era of mass unemployment – and they are just as
pertinent today ---
https://www.newstatesman.com/2020/08/why-bertrand-russells-argument-idleness-more-relevant-ever
‘Never Be Afraid’: William Faulkner’s Speech
to His Daughter’s Graduating Class in 1951 ---
http://www.openculture.com/2020/05/never-be-afraid-william-faulkners-speech-to-his-daughters-graduating-class-in-1951.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Also see
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/michael-gorra-william-faulkner/614206/
Biden Admits Plagiarism in School But Says It
Was Not 'Malevolent' (1987 Article) ---
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3875767/posts
What Derailed America’s Covid Testing: Three
Lost Weeks ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-coronavirus-covid-testing-delay-11597267543
Bill Gates: US fumbled coronavirus response
because 'we believe in freedom' ---
https://www.foxnews.com/health/bill-gates-us-masks-freedom
In trial, Israeli gargle
test gives COVID results in 1 second, at 95% accuracy ---
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-trial-israeli-gargle-test-gives-covid-results-in-1-second-at-95-accuracy/
It must not be any good, because the major media is ignoring it --- or maybe
they're ignoring it because it was discovered by Israel.
Latin American women are being
raped, disappearing, and dying under lockdown ---
https://theconversation.com/latin-american-women-are-disappearing-and-dying-under-lockdown-143791
Economists see a chance of a double-dip recession
---
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/24/economists-see-a-chance-of-a-double-dip-recession-survey-shows.html
In the Eyes of Trump Voters: 30 Good
Things President Trump Has Done for America ---
https://townhall.com/columnists/waynegrudem/2020/08/24/30-good-things-president-trump-has-done-for-america-n2574849?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=08/24/2020&bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&recip=17935167
Democrats adamantly disagree that these are good things, but such things keep
Trump in the November race
Many voters who despise Trump will vote for him just to support these issues
Dozens of former GOP national security
officials to back Biden, call Trump ‘dangerously unfit’ ---
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dozens-former-gop-national-security-officials-to-back-biden
The Food and Drug Administration's Dark Side
Record ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/08/the-fda-burns.html
The Hidden Cost Of Corona: American Roads
Crumbling As Budgets Dried-Up For Repairs ---
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/988400-the-hidden-cost-of-corona-american-roads-crumbling-as-budgets-dried-up-for-repairs?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI&utm_content=1Cugtgg08BDw-1AwBlaN1Qmmriw..A
These are the worst states for road repairs ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-20/these-are-the-worst-u-s-cities-when-it-comes-to-bad-streets?cmpid=BBD082020_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=200820&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily
Factors Behind the Swedish Mortality Rate
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3674138
Baylor School of Medicine: Why doctors
and researchers need access to hydroxychloroquine ---
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/510700-why-doctors-and-researchers-need-access-to-hydroxychloroquine
Seattle BLM Protesters Demand White People
Give Up Homes As ‘Reparations’ ---
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/981990-insanity-seattle-blm-protestors-demand-white-people-give-up-homes-as-reparations?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI&utm_content=9GHGkdpWhYe83EFyZJjkFO8_21LdfGwaVfyZOKuqu1nQ.A
Political Correctness: Using Social
Media to Bring Down the Power Grid ---
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/08/using-social-media-to-bring-down-the-power-grid.html
Justice Department Finds Yale Illegally
Discriminates Against Asians and Whites in Undergraduate Admissions in Violation
of Federal Civil-Rights Laws ---
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-finds-yale-illegally-discriminates-against-asians-and-whites-undergraduate
Chicago No Longer Defunding Police: Adds
1,000 Officers to Combat Looting ---
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/982357-abandoning-the-cause-chicago-not-defunding-police-adds-1000-cops-to-combat-looters?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI&utm_content=3DQRUwfHbKmcJ1V_NFDY6CkYb3g..A
The problem is that arrested felons are not being prosecuted in Cook County ---
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1270-bacterium-eats-plastic/
Also see
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/chicago-crime-kim-foxx-john-cantanzara
Austin defunded its police department by
1/3 while being a
fast-growing city of about a million that now leads the nation in
the percentage increase of homicides in 2020 ---
https://pjmedia.com/columns/bryan-preston/2020/08/18/austin-defunded-its-police-texas-steps-up-to-defend-them-n806874
Canceled cadet class would have been Austin
Police Department’s most diverse group ever, APA says ---
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/canceled-cadet-class-would-have-been-austin-police-departments-most-diverse-group-ever-apa-says/amp/
Cost Of ‘Peaceful Protests’ Damage To
Democratic Run Cities ‘Will Bankrupt’ Some ---
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/982456-cost-of-peaceful-protests-damage-to-democratic-cities-will-bankrupt-some-cities?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI&utm_content=3DQRUwfHbKmcJ1V_NFDY6CkYb3g..A
Poor Governance Fuels the Illinois Exodus ---
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/08/13/poor_governance_fuels_the_illinois_exodus_143947.html
Leaving Seattle: Violent Protests, Civil Unrest &
New Taxes Driving Amazon Out Of City ---
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/982618-leaving-seattle-violent-protests-civil-unrest-new-taxes-driving-amazon-out-of-city?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI&utm_content=9GHGkdpWhYe83EFyZJjkFO8_21LdfGwaVfyZOKuqu1nQ.A
Exodus from USA Cities ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-another-exodus-ahead-for-u-s-cities-11592488220
Too many big city leaders and criminal prosecutors consider
turning their cities into anarchy ghettos as price to pay to start a civil war
across the USA.
What businesses want to be in Chicago, Seattle, NYC, or Portland these days where
crimes, including felonies, are no longer prosecuted and police departments are
imploding?
The City of Roses, Portland, turned into a City of Thorns.
Portland experienced chaos yet again early
Wednesday after a fire was set inside a federal building prior to the police
department declaring another riot ---
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fire-set-inside-portlands-multnomah-building-during-unrest-riot-declared
On Sunday rioters set fire to Portland precinct, attack
cops as chaos rages ---
https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-police-declare-riot-near-citys-north-precinct-stop-attacking-officers
Businesses Leaving Downtown Portland (and
Chicago) After Vandalism, Assaults on Employees ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/08/businesses-leaving-downtown-portland-after-vandalism-assaults-on-employees/
City and State leaders and prosecutors don't seem to care
Because Portland is no longer prosecuting riot criminals, Oregon's national
guard pulled out.
Oregon Ballot Initiative Would Decriminalize
Low-Level Possession of All Drugs: Measure 110 would reduce felony
convictions for drug possession by an estimated 95 percent
https://reason.com/2020/08/21/oregon-ballot-initiative-would-decriminalize-low-level-possession-of-all-drugs/
Mass Exodus from NYC: Young New Yorkers Join
The Affluent Bolting The City ---
https://gellerreport.com/2020/05/nyc-exodus-young-join-affluent-bolt.html/
DeBlasio’s New York; AntiFa Thugs Terrorize
Jewish Neighborhood ---
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/984863-deblasio-s-new-york-antifa-thugs-terrorize-jewish-neighborhood-break-windows-loot-stores?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI&utm_content=5iEzoSRA3OwmMZouDYnIqL3RgHsaffHcB6hB5DcjF-f0.A
The Jewish Express: A Brief History of
Antifa: Part I ---
https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/a-brief-history-of-antifa-part-i/2020/06/14/
The Jewish Experess: A Brief History of
Antifa: Part II ---
https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/a-brief-history-of-antifa-part-ii-antifa-in-the-united-states/2020/06/24/
There were 194 shooting incidents that
involved black victims in the NYC in June, a 177% increase from the 70 recorded
in June 2019 ---
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/991339-black-people-make-up-the-overwhelming-majority-of-shooting-victims-amid-nyc-wave?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI&utm_content=1Cugtgg08BDw-1AwBlaN1Qmmriw..A
The shift from coastal cities was a clear
trend pre-pandemic. Now that trend is sharply spiraling upward.
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-states-are-californians-most-likely-to-move-to-in-2020-ubs-says-2020-8?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BIPrime_select&utm_campaign=BI
Prime 2020-08-20&utm_term=BI Prime Select
Up here in the mountains of northern New Hampshire I'm
told that real estate sales are brisk because of incoming former residents of
cities like NYC and Boston. Many are seeking lower taxes, greater safety, and
better public schools.
The War on Landlords Has Begun ---
https://mises.org/wire/war-landlords-has-begun?utm_source=Mises+Institute+Subscriptions&utm_campaign=d963e28f60-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_21_2018_9_59_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8b52b2e1c0-d963e28f60-228708937
Immigration to Canada Dropped by 64% ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-17/immigration-to-canada-drops-64-threatening-economic-growth?cmpid=BBD081820_BIZ&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=200818&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily
Canada is not welcoming the colored, sick, and poor with open arms.
NYT: Judge Orders New Elections After
Mail-In-Ballot Fraud Scheme in New Jersey---
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/nyregion/nj-election-mail-voting-fraud.html
I thought that this was declared impossible by the major media
One Week After Election, Belarus Sees Giant
Protests Against 'Europe's Last Dictator' ---
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/16/903036245/one-week-after-election-belarus-sees-giant-protests-against-europe-s-last-dictat?utm_term=OZY&utm_campaign=WIYC&utm_content=Monday_08.17.20&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email
Over the weekend, Lukashenko spoke to Putin by
phone and said he’d received assurances that Russia would help him quash street
protests … though the Kremlin didn’t quite put it the same way. The two leaders
have had an uneasy relationship, but Putin would not want to see his buffer
between Russia and the EU blurred by a new, free election in Belarus. Meanwhile,
both French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have
called Putin to urge him to stay out ---
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/world/europe/belarus-russia-Lukashenko-Putin.html?utm_term=OZY&utm_campaign=daily-dose&utm_content=Tuesday_08.18.20&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email
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map to see a lot of the information you need in order to cast a ballot this fall
—
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/how-to-vote-2020/
Rather Than
Give Away Its COVID Vaccine, Oxford Makes a Deal With Drugmaker ---
https://khn.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine-oxford-makes-a-deal-with-drugmaker/
In a business driven by profit, vaccines have a problem. They’re not very profitable — at least not without government subsidies. Pharma companies favor expensive medicines that must be taken repeatedly and generate revenue for years or decades. Vaccines are often given only once or twice. In many parts of the world, established vaccines cost a few dollars per dose or less.
Last year only four companies were making vaccines for the U.S. market, down from more than 20 in the 1970s. As recently as Feb. 11, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, complained that no major drug company had committed to “step up” to make a coronavirus vaccine, calling the situation “very difficult and frustrating.”
Oxford University surprised and pleased advocates of overhauling the vaccine business in April by promising to donate the rights to its promising coronavirus vaccine to any drugmaker.
The idea was to provide medicines preventing or treating COVID-19 at a low cost or free of charge, the British university said. That made sense to people seeking change. The coronavirus was raging. Many agreed that traditional vaccine development, characterized by long lead times, manufacturing monopolies and weak investment, was broken.
“We actually thought they were going to do that,” James Love, director of Knowledge Ecology International, a nonprofit that works to expand access to medical technology, said of Oxford’s pledge. “Why wouldn’t people agree to let everyone have access to the best vaccines possible?”
A few weeks later, Oxford—urged on by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—reversed course. It signed an exclusive vaccine deal with AstraZeneca that gave the pharmaceutical giant sole rights and no guarantee of low prices—with the less-publicized potential for Oxford to eventually make millions from the deal and win plenty of prestige.
Other companies working on coronavirus vaccines have followed the same line, collecting billions in government grants, hoarding patents, revealing as little as possible about their deals—and planning to charge up to $37 a dose for potentially hundreds of millions of shots.
Even as governments shower money on an industry that has not made vaccines a priority in the past, critics say, failure to alter the basic model means drug industry executives and their shareholders will get rich with no assurance that future vaccines will be inexpensively available to all.
“If there were ever an opportunity” to change the economics of vaccine development, “this would have been it,” said Ameet Sarpatwari, an epidemiologist and lawyer at Harvard Medical School who studies drug-pricing regulation. Instead, “it is business as usual, where the manufacturers are getting exclusive rights and we are hoping on the basis of public sentiment that they will price their products responsibly.”
In the United States and other developed nations, the solution to drug-company reluctance was to shower them with billions of dollars in public funds to persuade them to help. The Trump administration has announced deals worth more than $10 billion with seven companies to try to turn basic research—often funded by the government—into effective, widely distributed vaccines—but with no guarantee they would be widely affordable or available.
That approach has driven up stock prices in the past four months and enriched drug executives betting with somebody else’s money.
AstraZeneca stock and options owned by CEO Pascal Soriot have increased by nearly $15 million in value since early April, according to calculations by KHN based on company disclosures. The stock hit an all-time high in July. The stock market value of Novavax, a biotech that never recorded a profit in more than two decades, soared tenfold to $10 billion after a nonprofit and the Trump administration agreed to give it $1.6 billion to make a vaccine.
Companies “say we have to charge high prices because we are taking a risk,” said Mohga Kamal-Yanni, an independent consultant on global health based in the United Kingdom. “Actually, the public is taking the risk. The public is paying for the cost of research and development and probably the cost of manufacturing as well.”
Moderna, another company working on a vaccine candidate, received nearly $1 billion from the U.S. government to pay essentially all costs to research the product and get it approved by regulators. It’s using a vaccine designed in large part by the National Institutes of Health and academic scientists using federal grants.
If the vaccine works, the company gets an additional $1.5 billion to cover 100 million doses, a deal that U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a Texas Democrat, likened to giving taxpayers “the privilege of purchasing that same vaccine that we already paid for.”
That deal comes to $15 a dose. Moderna told Wall Street analysts it might charge as much as $37 a dose for smaller-volume contracts.
“This is greedy, and the taxpayers who have funded all of this should have expected better negotiation on the part of the U.S. government,” said Margaret Liu, a globally respected vaccine scientist who once worked for Merck and is now chairperson of the International Society for Vaccines.
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department “conducted extensive market research and price analysis” to ensure prices are fair, said a senior HHS official who asked for anonymity. “We are prohibited from disclosing price discussions and details.”
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Commercial Mortgage Debt in Distress Surges 320%, Moody’s Says ---
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/commercial-mortgage-debt-in-distress-surges-320-moody-s-says-1.1484837
The Weight of Debt: The Economy Needs More Than A Vaccine ---
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/michaelpento/2020/08/25/the-economy-needs-more-than-a-vaccine-n2574992?bcid=b16c6f948f297f77432f990d4411617f&utm_campaign=nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=thdaily
Ronald A. Fisher ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Fisher
R.A. Fisher's eminence as a scientist is beyond doubt. So is the fact that he
was a racist. How should the University of Cambridge remember him?
https://www.newstatesman.com/international/science-tech/2020/07/ra-fisher-and-science-hatred
Cancel Culture ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shaming#Call-outs_and_cancellation
History of "Cancel Culture" ---
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/liberalism-harpers-letter-dewey
August 24, 2020 reply from Jagdish Gangolly
Bob,
I was deeply saddened to read about G&C college's decision to remove the Fisher window in their dining hall. Fisher might have held unconventional views on Eugenics, and distribution of various characteristics by race. But that was a brick wall he built for himself between science and society, and in that he was not alone and in good company. Those that believed in Eugenics included a galaxy of scientists and statesmen including Karl Pearson, Teddy Roosevelt, Justice Harlan, Julian Huxley, JBS Haldane, Francis Galton, among others. And probably even the great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who once observed, “It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.”
One of Fisher's only three doctoral students in statistics in his career was an Indian (CR Rao, still a Professor at Penn State; he was at Pitt while I was a student there). He came to know another Indian Physics student at Cambridge who Fisher got to know, and was probably partially responsible for changing his field from Physics to Statistics, PC Mahalanobis (M) (D^2 statistics, Fractile Graphical Analysis, large scale sample surveys, Feldman-Mahalanobis model in Economic planning,...). They also became lifelong friends, Fisher visiting and staying at M's home in Calcutta at least eight times. Had he really been a racist, I think, none of those things would have happened.
When the scientists and anthropologists were discussing race at UNESCO, Fisher made the following statement:
"In so far as the statement condemns any defamation of races and emphasizes the appalling nature of the recent abuse of racial theory, it has my full and unqualified approval. I wholeheartedly agree, also, with its implicit and explicit finding that anthropology and racial studies afford no justification for the assumption that members of any particular race are not entitled to the enjoyment of all fundamental rights, or for any form distinguished men as authors of this statement of racial discrimination."
Source: Race Question in Modern Science, The Race Concept: Results of an Enquiry. UNESCO, Paris. 1952.
Could a racist have written such an unambiguous statement? I doubt it.
From Bloomberg Newsletter on August 20, 2020
As if California wildfires weren’t bad enough, their smoke has started to form self-contained weather systems capable of spinning out lightning and, yes, firenadoes. The Golden State has been considering ramping up battery storage so that one day rolling blackouts may only be a memory. The problem is that there aren’t nearly enough batteries in the world. The heatwave causing millions of Californians to fear losing power is, as you might have guessed, tied in part to global warming and the climate crisis. Specifically, it seems we have broken the jet stream.
Political Correctness: The administrative torment of UCF
Prof. Charles Negy ---
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/08/the-administrative-torment-of-ucf-prof-charles-negy/
After Negy questioned claims of ‘systemic racism’ and asserted ‘black privilege is real,’ there has been a university-wide pile-on, with Negy alleging UCF is soliciting complaints against him and conducting an abusive investigation in an effort to justify firing him.
I had heard of Charles Negy, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Florida (UCF). What I heard seemed like a particularly egregious example of cancel culture that is purging academia and imposing uniformity of opinion, particularly with regard to the Black Lives Matter movement. Having looked into it more, it’s worse than I realized.
Negy’s alleged crime that sparked the controversy was two tweets questioning the orthodoxy of systemic racism and white privilege.
One tweet, which no longer is available,said:
“If Afr. Americans as a group, had the same behavioral profile as Asian Americans (on average, performing the best academically, having the highest income, committing the lowest crime, etc.), would we still be proclaiming ‘systematic racism’ exists?”
A second tweet, also no longer available, said:
“Black privilege is real: Besides affirm. action, special scholarships and other set asides, being shielded from legitimate criticism is a privilege. But as a group, they’re missing out on much needed feedback.”
Rather than debate the merits or lack of merits in his opinions, a particularly aggressive attempt to get Negy fired ensued.
There was a Change.org petition with over 30,000 signatures, a Twitter hashtag was launched (#UCFFireHim) that trended, the student Senate passed a resolution, and there were protestson campus in which the President participated:
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Justice Department Finds Yale Illegally
Discriminates Against Asians and Whites in Undergraduate Admissions in Violation
of Federal Civil-Rights Laws ---
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-finds-yale-illegally-discriminates-against-asians-and-whites-undergraduate
Walter E. Williams: Back to Academic Brainwashing ---
https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2020/08/19/back-to-academic-brainwashing-n2574500?utm_s
Bob Jensen's threads on political correctness controversies
are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies2.htm#PoliticalCorrectness
California lawmakers want a wealth tax to soak the rich for living there. Also,
for leaving ---
. . .
The proposed wealth tax would add a .4 percent tax on a taxpayer's net worth for net worths that exceed $30 million, which Bonta estimates will affect fewer than 31,000 Californians. From this proposed wealth tax, he estimates the state will raise $7.5 billion per year. The state currently faces a $54 billion budget deficit due in part to economic downturns from the coronavirus pandemic.
And to be clear, this tax goes beyond wealth and assets held in the state of California. "All worldwide property" of these wealthy Californians would be subject to this tax. If you park your money in real estate, farm assets, artwork, offshore funds, or a whole host of categories, they want a piece of it. (It even lists pension funds as taxable to those who meet the threshold!)
For rich Californians thinking of leaving rather than paying the state for the privilege of owning things, lawmakers are also attempting to tax the wealthy who vote with their feet. The bill contains a special formula to apply to anybody who has lived in the state within the last 10 years, though the tax burden will slowly drop over time for each year they don't live in California. It's pretty much a certainty that former Californians subjected to this wealth tax would challenge the legality of this plan.
Despite Bonta's attempt to present the state's wealthiest as needing to contribute their "fair share," the reality is that California is exceedingly—perhaps even overly—dependent on its wealthiest for tax revenue. According to the state's Legislative Analyst's Office, people earning more than $1 million a year were responsible for almost 40 percent of the state's personal income tax revenue in 2015, though those same people account for only 19 percent of adjusted gross income in the state (see page 10 here for a graph).
Over at the Los Angeles Times, Deputy Editorial Page Editor Jon Healey notes that this proposed wealth tax could have effects on capital gains taxes, especially if it encourages people to sell their assets at a loss to lower their tax burdens—and California extracts a significant amount of capital gains taxes from its wealthiest citizens. The result here could be a drop in capital gains revenue in the state, meaning (ironically) less tax revenue overall.
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Wealth Taxes Make Us Poorer ---
https://reason.com/2020/08/20/wealth-taxes-make-us-poorer/
Jensen Comment
If this tax survives the legal challenges, it could become law in all 50 states
and beyond.
Why stop at 10 years?
Why have a $30 million cutoff? Why not $3 million or less?
Maybe it's possible to clawback wealth distributed by estates over past decades.
If the dead can vote why can't the dead pay more taxes imposed by new laws?
Ronald A. Fisher ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Fisher
R.A. Fisher's eminence as a scientist is beyond doubt. So is the fact that he
was a racist. How should the University of Cambridge remember him?
https://www.newstatesman.com/international/science-tech/2020/07/ra-fisher-and-science-hatred
Cancel Culture ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shaming#Call-outs_and_cancellation
History of "Cancel Culture" ---
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/liberalism-harpers-letter-dewey
August 24, 2020 reply from Jagdish Gangolly
Bob,
I was deeply saddened to read about G&C college's decision to remove the Fisher window in their dining hall. Fisher might have held unconventional views on Eugenics, and distribution of various characteristics by race. But that was a brick wall he built for himself between science and society, and in that he was not alone and in good company. Those that believed in Eugenics included a galaxy of scientists and statesmen including Karl Pearson, Teddy Roosevelt, Justice Harlan, Julian Huxley, JBS Haldane, Francis Galton, among others. And probably even the great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who once observed, “It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.”
One of Fisher's only three doctoral students in statistics in his career was an Indian (CR Rao, still a Professor at Penn State; he was at Pitt while I was a student there). He came to know another Indian Physics student at Cambridge who Fisher got to know, and was probably partially responsible for changing his field from Physics to Statistics, PC Mahalanobis (M) (D^2 statistics, Fractile Graphical Analysis, large scale sample surveys, Feldman-Mahalanobis model in Economic planning,...). They also became lifelong friends, Fisher visiting and staying at M's home in Calcutta at least eight times. Had he really been a racist, I think, none of those things would have happened.
When the scientists and anthropologists were discussing race at UNESCO, Fisher made the following statement:
"In so far as the statement condemns any defamation of races and emphasizes the appalling nature of the recent abuse of racial theory, it has my full and unqualified approval. I wholeheartedly agree, also, with its implicit and explicit finding that anthropology and racial studies afford no justification for the assumption that members of any particular race are not entitled to the enjoyment of all fundamental rights, or for any form distinguished men as authors of this statement of racial discrimination."
Source: Race Question in Modern Science, The Race Concept: Results of an Enquiry. UNESCO, Paris. 1952.
Could a racist have written such an unambiguous statement? I doubt it.
Regards,
Jagdish
How to Mislead With Statistics
Ranking of State Economies ---
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2020/08/25/the-states-with-the-best-and-worst-economies-4/2/
01 Utah (best)
02 Idaho
03 Washington
04 Colorado
05 Washington
05 Maryland
06 Arizona
07 Nebraska
08 Oregon
09 Minnesota
10 Georgia. . .
41 Rhode Island
42 New Jersey
43 Michigan
44 Alaska
45 Illinois
46 Delaware
47 West Virginia
48 Mississippi
49 New York
50 Louisiana (worst)To determine the states with the best and worst economies, 24/7 Wall St. ranked states based on an index comprising five measures: GDP growth, job growth, unemployment rate, poverty rate, and the bachelor’s degree attainment rate among adults. The average annual GDP growth rate from Q1 2015 to Q1 2020 came from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and was included in the index at full weight. The average annual employment growth rate from June 2015 to June 2020 came from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and was included in the index at full weight. The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate as of June 2020 also came from the BLS and was included in the index at full weight. The share of adults living below the poverty line came from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2018 American Community Survey and was included in the index at full weight.
In addition to the components in the index, we considered additional state data. Real GDP and contributions to real GDP growth by industry came from the BEA. Median household income, college attainment rate, and the share of workers commuting outside of the state for work came from the 2018 ACS. The affordability ratio of median home value to median household income is a 24/7 Wall St. calculation based on ACS data. Data on regional price parity, a measure of cost of living, came from the BEA and is for 2018. Population change due to natural causes and net migration from 2010 to 2019 came from the U.S. Census Bureau. All data are for the most recent period available.
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Jensen Comment
This is misleading in the sense that the ranking does not necessarily reflect
states with the greatest flexibility for changing their rankings. For example,
Delaware is a relatively low taxation state with no income tax. It has more
ability to raise its ranking than New York that, like Illinois, has taxed just
about everything to the maximum and has almost run out of options other than
begging for bailouts from Washington DC. There are also states in the middle
that are in more desperate needs for additional revenue than the bottom 10
states above. For example, California has been hit by both natural disasters
(think wild fires) and bad management (think of phasing out gas power plants too
quickly to avoid risk of electricity shortages that have very expensive
solutions). Oregon and Washington are at greater risk of expensive civil war
with entrenched Antifa factions.
The Jewish Express: A Brief History of
Antifa: Part I ---
https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/a-brief-history-of-antifa-part-i/2020/06/14/
The Jewish Experess: A Brief History of
Antifa in the USA: Part II ---
https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/a-brief-history-of-antifa-part-ii-antifa-in-the-united-states/2020/06/24/
Forwarded by Auntie Bev
Thicker than thieves
*YES, THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN USED TO WORK FOR GEORGE SOROS.
* YES, CALIF GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM IS NANCY PELOSI'S NEPHEW.
* YES, ADAM SHIFF'S SISTER IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS' SON.
* YES, JOHN KERRY'S DAUGHTER IS MARRIED TO A MULLAH'S SON IN IRAN.
* YES, HILLARY'S DAUGHTER CHELSEA IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS' NEPHEW.
* YES, ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IAN CAMERON IS MARRIED TO SUSAN RICE,
OBAMA'S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.
* YES, CBS PRESIDENT DAVID RHODES IS THE BROTHER OF BEN RHODES, OBAMA'S
DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS.
* YES, ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT CLAIRE SHIPMAN IS MARRIED TO JAY CARNEY,
FORMER OBAMA WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY.
* YES, ABC NEWS AND UNIVISION REPORTER MATTHEW JAFFE IS MARRIED TO KATIE
HOGAN, OBAMA'S FORMER DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY.
* YES, ABC PRESIDENT BEN SHERWOOD IS THE BROTHER OF ELIZABETH SHERWOOD,
OBAMA'S FORMER SPECIAL ADVISER.
* YES, CNN PRESIDENT VIRGINIA MOSELEY IS MARRIED TO TOM NIDES, HILLARY CLINTON'S DEPUTY SECRETARY.
THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A "STACKED DECK".
IF YOU HAD A HUNCH THE NEWS SYSTEM WAS SOMEWHAT RIGGED AND YOU COULDN'T
PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT, THIS MIGHT HELP YOU SOLVE THE PUZZLE.
Updates on Medical Insurance
Here’s what your Medicare costs could look like in retirement
(until Congress messes with the costs and/or coverage) ---
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/heres-what-your-medicare-costs-could-look-like-in-retirement.html
Jensen Comment
I recommend some degree of Medicare supplemental coverage from the private
sector. Because we can afford it, my wife and I both have premium Blue Cross
Anthem supplements costing us each over $600 per month. This eliminates the
deductibles for medical and pharmacy billings that are not covered by Medicare
and, when available, will get us private hospital rooms. We've both been
hospitalized recently after emergency room visits. Never were we billed
anything for the ambulance service, ER, hospitalization in private rooms,
physician services, or medications.
There are supplemental plans costing less that cover less. Look into such options well in advance of retirement.
Keep in mind that Medicare only covers very short-term nursing care outside a hospital. Medicaid does provide long-term nursing care although that coverage is usually not sufficient for the better nursing homes that now charge $9,000 per month or more depending upon where you live and what nursing home quality you choose. Fortunately, Erika and I do not yet need nursing care. What's important is that you put away savings to cover long-term nursing care should the need arise. I have a friend who paid $17,000 per month for a relatively long time until her husband passed away. At those rates it often does not take long to wipe out retirement savings.
It's extremely important to plan ahead well in advance of retirement and to carefully track changes in Medicare legislated by Congress.
Begin by carefully examining the Medicare Website ---
https://www.medicare.gov/
Then look at options available for supplemental plans where you intend to live
in retirement. Then create a sufficient savings plan before retirement.
If medical cost inflation soars before you retire, things will only get worse.
Open immigration can’t exist with a strong
social safety net; if you’re going to assure healthcare and a decent income to
everyone, you can’t make that offer global ---
Paul Krugman
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/724654-open-immigration-can-t-exist-with-a-strong-social-safety-net
Bob Jensen's threads on health insurance ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
Bob Jensen's
Tidbits Archives ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbitsdirectory.htm
Bob
Jensen's Pictures and Stories
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Summary of Major Accounting Scandals --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_scandals
Bob Jensen's threads on such scandals:
Bob Jensen's threads on audit firm litigation and negligence ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud001.htm
Current and past editions of my
newsletter called Fraud Updates ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Enron --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudEnron.htm
Rotten to the Core --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm
American History of Fraud --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudAmericanHistory.htm
Bob Jensen's fraud
conclusions ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on
auditor professionalism and independence are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud001c.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on
corporate governance are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud001.htm#Governance
Shielding
Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
· With a Rejoinder from the 2010 Senior Editor of The Accounting Review (TAR), Steven J. Kachelmeier
· With Replies in Appendix 4 to Professor Kachemeier by Professors Jagdish Gangolly and Paul Williams
· With Added Conjectures in Appendix 1 as to Why the Profession of Accountancy Ignores TAR
· With Suggestions in Appendix 2 for Incorporating Accounting Research into Undergraduate Accounting Courses
Shielding
Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
By Bob Jensen
What went
wrong in accounting/accountics research? ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most
Accountants ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW:
1926-2005 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm
Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the vegetable nutrition paradox)
that probably will never be solved
---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews
Bob Jensen's economic crisis messaging http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/2008Bailout.htm
Bob Jensen's threads --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Bob Jensen's Home Page --- http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/